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Leptospirosis In Tasmanian Devils - University of Sunshine Coast

Conference Abstracts - The Australian Mammal Society

A University of the Sunshine Coast PhD student has detected the deadly leptospirosis bacteria in Tasmanian devils for the first time and isolated a strain of the disease never before seen in Australian wildlife. Sarah Wynwood pioneered a technique for testing leptospirosis in humans and animals as part of her PhD study and decided to develop and test her hypotheses on the Tasmanian devil population…..”
A diagnostic study of Tasmanian devil samples for the presence of leptospirosis was undertaken.
Leptospirosis has been shown to be present in other Tasmanian wildlife, including wombats, potoroos and deer, in the 1970’s, however no recent research is available. 83 Tasmanian devil samples were tested using three diagnostic methods. This study shows, for the first time, that leptospirosis exists in Tasmanian devil populations across a wide geographical range of Tasmania.